Abstract
We live in a scientific and technological age. Our lives, individually and corporately, are dominated by the thought forms and artifacts of natural science. Our age has transferred its basic creaturely response of faith from God to scientific and technological progress. "In a society that pays ritual homage to our great secular cathedrals (sc. universities), 'scientific' and 'research' are holy words, and 'scholarship' is almost synonymous with saintliness." It is science and technology that has made possible the affluence and material progress of the 20th century. But a warning note needs to be sounded for "paradoxical as it sounds, in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its own successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions."